MDS in Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics 

at Army College of Dental Sciences, Secunderabad

Selected students are initially given provisional admission at Army College of Dental Sciences. The documents required at the time of joining MDS at Army college of Dental Sciences, after admission confirmation:

• Provisional allotment letter issued by KNRUHS.
• NEET MDS-2025 hall ticket, and Rank card.
• All memorandum of marks from First BDS to Final BDS.
• Registration Certificate from the respective State Dental Council.
• Internship certificate/Experience certificate.
• Original and provisional BDS certificate.
• Conduct and character certificate of the college from which the student has graduated.
• Study certificate of BDS course.
• Medical certificate – Certificate 4 of ACDS MDS Prospectus-2025. 
• Migration Certificate & Transfer Certificate.

Army college of Dental Sciences offers an in house mandatory internship programme for all final year MDS students with a stipend of INR 2500/- per month. Students are advised to check with the admissions office if the internship offered to final year MDS students is mandatory.

MDS Prosthodontics is a three year course in full time mode with a seat intake of three seats. Two seats of these, are reserved for children of Air Force and Navy personnel. Admission into MDS programme at the college is merit based with the university accepting NEET MDS scores. No other entrance exam is conducted by the university. The minimum eligibility is having a BDS degree from a recognised university.

For first year BDS students at Army College of Dental Sciences, the total annual fee including tuition, hostel and refundable security deposit amounts to about INR 5.05 lakh. An amount of INR 1200/- PM is paid every month to students as stipend during their period of internship. For civilian candidates, present tuition fee is Rs 45,000/- PM. For the total fee of second to fourth year, students are notified before the commencement of next academic year.

For first year MDS students the total annual fee including tuition, hostel and refundable security deposit amounts to about INR 6.2 lakh. An amount of INR 2500/- PM is paid every month to students as stipend during their period of internship. For the total fee of second & third year, students are notified before the commencement of next academic year.

Selection criteria for admission into BDS and MDS courses at Army college of Dental Sciences is entrance based. However, the college doesn't conduct its own entrance exam and accepts NEET UG and PG scores respectively for BDS and MDS courses.

At Army College of Dental Sciences fees are refunded after commencement of the course but before last date of admission if seat is filled by another Candidate. The refund policy is as follows:

·       Initiation Registration Fees - Full registration fees less INR 1000/- processing charges.

·       Admission Fees - To be refunded

·       Security Deposit - To be refunded in full

·       Student Association Fees - To be refunded

·       Tuition fees/ Hostel Charges/ Messing Charges/ Other Charges - As per actual. A single day of the month is treated as a month.

The admission process at Army College of Dental Sciences takes around 1 month for both MDS and BDS. Admission confirmation usually takes around 1 week after the admission process has been completed. Dates for counselling and certificate verification is announced by KNR UHS in their website for PG generally by end Feb/ early March and for UG by end of August.

No, admission to MDS programme at Army college of Dental Sciences is entrance based with the university accepting NEET MDS scores. The minimum eligibility for the course is having a MDS degree from a recognised university.

Candidates must first check their eligibility for BDS course at Army college of Dental Sciences. After ensuring the same, they must register online on the official portal of Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences. Upon successful registration, the registration number is issued by the university. Hereafter, the student must scan required documents for online verification.

The university notifies the merit list after the last date of document verification. Students appearing on the list must then appear for online counselling. After qualifying this round, selected students are issued provisional admission to the college. Students' admission is confirmed when eligibility verification is carried out and the annual fee of the college is paid.

If the candidate has been selected for allotment of Provisional Admission order to Army College of Dental Sciences, university fee is required to be paid to KNR UHS at the time of counselling. University fee amount and mode of payment is available on the official website. Hence, candidate has to prepare separate demand draft as specified in KNR UHS website.